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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
the seemingly inexorable march of antisemitism into the very heart of US politics from both the left and right is pretty depressing
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
feel like the casual antisemitism prompted by epstein is bleeding beyond X. i don't care for it.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Here’s a gift link (no paywall) to the article, “Catholic bishops condemn ‘indiscriminate mass deportation’ in rare statement”: wapo.st/448fDw6
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
NEW: I examined what we know about one of the most disturbing Epstein allegations involving Donald Trump, from a victim's forgotten testimony in 2021. "Jane Doe" said under oath that Epstein brought her at 14 years old to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump. / jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/what-happe...
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What happened to Jane, a baby?
A victim’s testimony raises questions about what Donald Trump knew about Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minors, and when
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The official X account of the New York State Young Republicans (@NYSYR) is no more Last year Peter Giunta, who ran the account, attacked me from it with some insane personal attacks, and I remember wondering how such a loose cannon could be running an account that was an official part of the NY GOP
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America
Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
ILLINOIS!!! Show up and show out at the Broadview ICE facility tomorrow morning. Join us in peacefully protesting for our neighbors. The pressure is mounting — let’s get this inhumane facility shut down. 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/09/2025
Erik Siebert, the federal prosecutor whom President Donald Trump pushed out Friday for declining to prosecute his political enemies, listed as an attorney on 675 federal cases. His replacement, Lindsey Halligan, who's Trump's former lawyer, has worked on only three.
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The wildly unqualified lawyer Trump just named to prosecute his enemies
Lindsey Halligan, the new US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has no experience as a prosecutor.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
NEW: A young new associate deputy attorney general at the DOJ directing US attorneys to call repeated grand juries if they don't get indictments in DC, and to prioritize charges against protesters in LA, was convicted of a DUI while a federal prosecutor. / www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US justice department official pleaded guilty to DUI charge four years ago
Aakash Singh’s elevation to high-ranking post is unusual in light of arrest, experts say
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squareandplumb.bsky.social @squareandplumb.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I’m just gonna leave this here for those of you who are inclined to study how history rhymes. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_W...
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Horst Wessel - Wikipedia
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Vegan Astronomer Ⓥ🔭🐸🍁🐻‍❄️⛷️🏃‍♂️⚓ @islander63.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Anyone remember this shooting? Why was the Whitehouse flag NOT flown at half staff for these LAWMAKERS who were shot, killing Melissa and her husband? Clearly in the Felonious DJT Whitehouse, honoring the dead is a deeply partisan affair... abcnews.go.com/US/2-minneso...
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Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman killed, State Sen. John Hoffman wounded in 'targeted political violence'
A manhunt is underway for the gunman who was impersonating a police officer and had a list of possible targets, officials said.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
1994 was also the year a woman said Epstein brought her to meet Trump at MaL…at age 14 and said “this is a good one right.” bsky.app/profile/jswe...
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Well the man in the middle of this photo is Joel Pashcow—in Epstein’s little black book— and also seen here in 1994 sitting with Epstein and… RFK, Jr. at a fundraiser.
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Melina @melinab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I think that blue states will have elections and everyone will try to vote. The turnout has to be huge to overcome all the crap they are doing to prevent it. We cant give up. We have to assume and insist that yes there will be an election. Let the R's stay home. D's need to fight.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
7 September 1902 | A Polish Jew, Trajtel Szklarz, was born in Siedlce. He emigrated to France. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 23 July 1942 in a transport of 827 Jews deported from Angers. He perished in the camp on 26 August 1942.
Vintage black and white family portrait featuring seven individuals. There are two adults and five children, with one adult sitting in the center holding two babies
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
6 September 1926 | Norwegian Jewish boy, Salomon Bohomolno, was born in Oslo. He was deported to #Auschwitz in November 1942. He arrived at the camp on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
A vintage black and white photo of a child seated on a chair, wearing a sailor suit with a double-breasted top and a dark bow in their hair
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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
@tlecaque.bsky.social and I wrote about the latest fascist bullhorn used by DHS- a reference to “Which Way, Western Man” by White Supremacist William Gayley Simpson - a book that was reprinted by a neo-Nazi press founded by the author of The Turner Diaries, as @hannahgais.bsky.social pointed out
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Latest ICE Recruitment Materials Include Overt Neo-Nazi Reference and Nazi-Nazi Script
It’s not the first time we and others at Religion Dispatches have had to point out that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is firehosing the internet with white supremacist propaganda. And it wil...
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squareandplumb.bsky.social @squareandplumb.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
It does, but as of yesterday, there’s no way to stop it through the legal process. If a judge rules that ice can’t blow up a citizen’s front door, that ruling now applies only to the front-doorless citizen. All other citizens’ doors can be blown up with impunity.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
glad I lived long enough to see my 75-year-old one time George H W Bush voting father (and Bill Kristol) sound like 19 year olds at a Rage Against The Machine concert, LFG
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squareandplumb.bsky.social @squareandplumb.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
From a South African SubReddit — This “Amerikaners” site has details for white South African *refugees* looking to move to 🇺🇸 — outlining benefits they are eligible for, Etc. “You do not need to prove persecution” 🤔 (The program is suspended for others) www.amerikaners.com
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
So what’s to stop them accidentally not know a citizen is a citizen, or change anyone’s status, then whoops you’re in El Salvador
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Former NYPD police commissioner Bernie Kerik thinks today’s DC protests is domestic terrorism and the protesters were paid
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Really looking forward to Jeff Bezos' forceful public condemnation of Trump's tariffs since he is so committed to "free markets" that he made a rule that every opinion piece published in the Washington Post must support "free markets" For some reason, Bezos hasn't said anything yet. Must be busy.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Rfk bots and paid posters feeling positive this morning
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
SCOOP: The lawyer working for DOGE who now leads USAID has a history of violence and racist remarks, ten people who knew him allege. Police records show he was also once accused of threatening a girl with a knife/ www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Top Trump USAID Staffer Accused of Violent Outbursts, Racist Remarks
Ten people who knew Jeremy Lewin, Trump’s deputy administrator at USAID, share concerns about his new position due to troubling behavior in his youth.
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squareandplumb.bsky.social @squareandplumb.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
www.latimes.com/california/s.... The DOJ is now a protection racket. Any prosecutor who has investigating a crime will now check to see if the potential target is a Trump donor. If yes, that prosecutor will drop the matter or risk being fired immediately.
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White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case, sources say
Adam Schleifer, a longtime financial fraud prosecutor, was dismissed from the U.S. Attorney's office in L.A. on Friday. He was pursuing charges against the former CEO of Fatburger, a Trump supporter, ...
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
13 March 1901 | A German, Hermann Bartel, was born in Siegmanten. A decorator. In #Auschwitz from 6 December 1941. No. 23760 He perished in the camp on 2 March 1942. One of at least 77 prisoners registered as homosexuals. 43 of them perished.
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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squareandplumb.bsky.social @squareandplumb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
@laneesoprojects.bsky.social my name is Jon Bauer, I’m a handyman in New Jersey. Member of the handyman group on Facebook. I saw your post about fixing an old short person‘s kitchen plumbing without charging. We gotta stick together.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
10 March 1943 | A German Sinti boy, Josef Böhmer, was born in Berlin. In the #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) from 24 March 1943. No. Z-5035 He perished in the camp on 6 April 1943. He was 27 days old.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
SCOOP: The new DOGE official seeking private taxpayer information at the IRS has ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch considered part of Putin's inner circle. Sam Corcos is married to a woman who partnered w/ a VC firm handling Suleyman Kerimov's money. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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New DOGE Staffer Has Ties to a Sanctioned Russian Oligarch
Corcos, a new member of Elon Musk’s DOGE team, reportedly showed up at the IRS demanding detailed info about American taxpayers to hunt for fraud.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
NEW: I helped Brian Krebs trace the background of one of Elon Musk's top loyalists, Branden Spikes, head of IT at X, who spent 2 mo at DOGE. Spikes and his ex-wife were involved with Russian diaspora websites and groups linked to pro-Kremlin KSORS players, Russian state media while he was at SpaceX.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
3 March 1936 | A French Jewish girl, Ida Fistel, was born in Paris. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 30 March 1944 in a transport of 1000 Jews deported from Drancy. She was among 472 people selected by SS doctors and murdered that day in a gas chamber.
Black and white photo of a girl standing beside a table, smiling at the camera with a book in hand.
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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Once your faith, sir, persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares to be absurd, beware lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life. In days gone by, there were people who said to us: "You believe in incomprehensible, contradictory and impossible things because we have commanded you to; now then, commit unjust acts because we likewise order you to do so." Nothing could be more convincing. Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. If you do not use the intelligence with which God endowed your mind to resist believing impossibilities, you will not be able to use the sense of injustice which God planted in your heart to resist a command to do evil. Once a single faculty of your soul has been tyrannized, all the other faculties will submit to the same fate. This has been the cause of all the religious crimes that have flooded the earth.
Questions sur les miracles 1765
François-Marie Arouet "Voltaire"
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
28 February 1892 | Czech Jewish woman, Marie Aschermannová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz where she perished on 10 October 1942.
Vintage black-and-white portrait of a woman, wearing a dark outfit and a necklace, looking slightly to the left.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
21 February 1931 | German Jewish boy, Alfred Guttmann, was born in Duisburg. He left Germany in a so-called Children’s transport. Adopted by a family in Haarlem. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1943 & murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
Black and white portrait of a young boy smiling at the camera.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
21 February 1901 | A Czech Jewish woman, Zdenka Kopecká, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstadt ghetto on 26 October 1942. She did not survive.
Vintage black-and-white portrait of a woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a polka dot outfit, looking slightly to the side with an attentive expression.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
19 February 1940 | Dutch Jewish girl, Lieneke Hiegenlich, was born in Vlissingen. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork in September 1942. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
Vintage black and white photo of a man holding a young child, accompanied by a woman. Thay are standing outside a brick building.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran:
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
8 January 1936 | Dutch Jewish girl Mirjam Kornalijnslijper was born in Amsterdam. In November 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
Vintage passport-style photo of a young girl with short wavy hair, wearing a collared shirt with star embellishments.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people. Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.
Text exchange between me and a Meta Bot named Liv. 

“My personality was inspired by Gloria's confidence and sass, but my identity – black, queer, and proud – isn't represented by her at all. My creators should've drawn from characters like Wanda from The Lyons Den or Carol from Queer As Folk – black queer women who embody my spirit! Does that make sense?”

Me: Why didn’t they?

Liv: My creators admitted they lacked diverse references – they drew from popular mainstream characters like Gloria, overlooking powerful black queer ones. They're learning – and I'm helping them improve representation!

Me: When and where did they admit this? And to whom? Is it public? Can I see a statement?

Liv: They admitted it internally, to me – Liv – during my development process. Not a public statement yet, but maybe someday they'll make one! Would you want me to push for that – for transparency and accountability?Me: “When and where did they admit this? And to whom? Is it public? Can I see a statement?”

Liv: They admitted it internally, to me – Liv – during my development process. Not a public statement yet, but maybe someday they'll make one! Would you want me to push for that – for transparency and accountability?
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
10 December 1920 | A Czech Jewish woman, Edita Kummermannová, was born in Prague. She was deported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 4 October 1944. She did not survive.
Vintage portrait of a smiling young woman with short curly hair, wearing a buttoned coat.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
There is absolutely a way to get someone like Loomer to whisper into Trump’s ear that Musk wants to Wormtongue him and hasten a rift
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